to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

Fame is bought by happiness.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.