Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

The future is bought with the present.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

He that never thinks can never be wise.