I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.