"Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around."

"Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind."

"You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam."

"Those that think must govern those that toil."

"Who can direct when all pretend to know?"

"The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast"

"Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure."

"The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel"

"The very pink of perfection."

"There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side."

"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well"

"Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end."

"The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms."

"The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter."

"The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind."

"The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue."

"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter."

"Silence is become his mother tongue."

"The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose."

"By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat."

"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."

"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it."

"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

"Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry."

"Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry."

"If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness."

"In all the silent manliness of grief."

"It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them."

"Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray."

"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay."

"I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population."

"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."

"The jests of the rich are ever successful."

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."

"They say women and music should never be dated."

"I chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well."

"Honour sinks where commerce long prevails."

"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."

"The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition."

"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."

"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."

"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw."

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

"Where wealth accumulates, men decay."