Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.

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

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.