A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

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.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.