There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.