Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.