The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.