Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.