Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.