The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.