I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.