He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.