“Success is a fruit of slow growth.”

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

There’s one fool at least in every married couple.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Enough is equal to a feast.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.

Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, humility.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.