Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.