A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Nature never gives everything at once.
None are happy but by anticipation of change.
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.