The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating