A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.