Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.