Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.