Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
Lately we have had many losses.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.