No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.