Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.