A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

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

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.