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

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.