“One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.”

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not.

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

Never love someone just to replace the one you loved.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.