Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.