It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.