Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy