“And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman’s breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.”

“There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.”

“Always and in everything strive to attain at the same time what is useful for others and what is pleasant for oneself.”

“He gets every vote who combines the useful with the pleasant, and who, at the same time he pleases the reader, also instructs him.”

“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused— in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened— by the recurrence of Christmas.”

“So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!”