Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.