A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.