Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. |
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. |
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life. |
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. |
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. |
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. |
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. |
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas. |
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. |
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections. |