Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.