By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.