No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.