How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves.