We are ourselves our happiness.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.