It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

Satire is the disease of art.

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.