A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

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