[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.