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

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.