If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.