When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.