He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.