Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.
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