Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

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

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself