Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.
He endearing elegance of female friendship.
Security will produce danger.
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
There are occasions on which all apologies are rudeness.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
It is our first duty to serve society.
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.