Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.