In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.