None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

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

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.