It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.

The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.