The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last
Applause abates diligence.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.