When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.