If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.