Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.