Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.