Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.