Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.