Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.