One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

I always get the better when I argue alone.