The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.