God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.