Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

The true science and study of mankind is man.