Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, "Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.