Love is only one of many passions.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

The joy of life is variety.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar; since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.