Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.