Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.
We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.
We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.