The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.