The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.