The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.