Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.