Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.