It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
The rotten apple spoils his companion.
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.