He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.
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.