Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.