If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Every man is of importance to himself.

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.