A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

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.

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

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.