Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.