Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.