Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.