To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.