Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.