Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.