Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.