There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

I am myself the matter of my book.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.