Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

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

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.

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

When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.