Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.