We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.