Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

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

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.