They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.