What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.