Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.