It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.