Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!

The will must be stronger than the skill.

Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch.

I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.