Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.