Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

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

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.