It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

For who is pleased with himself.

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.