I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
The great source of pleasure is variety.
All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
Men hate more steadily than they love.
Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.