Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.
We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
The triumph of hope over experience.
The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.
A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.