As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.