The true art of memory is the art of attention.
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
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
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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.