We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.