Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.