I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.