Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.