Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.