Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.