"The greatest felicity of life is to be employed in a work, to which one is fitted by nature."

"'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit. Will condescend to take a bit."

"The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages."

"We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are of the same kind."

"Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived."