One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.