Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection..

Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure..

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment t….

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little..

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by t….

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out..

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower..

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama..

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart..

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same..

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence..

There is no cosmetic like happiness.

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit..

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget..

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies..

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world..

Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great….

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes..

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight..

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!.