Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.