Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.