I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.