How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.