The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.