Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.