Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.