It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.