Riches seldom make their owners rich.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.