The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
The best of life is conversation.
Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.