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.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

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

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.