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.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.