The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.