Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me