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.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.