Health and happiness give rise to each other.

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.