Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.