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

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, --or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.

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

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.