Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Repetition is the mother of education.

In women everything is heart, even the head.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.