The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.