You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.