Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
No man was ever great by imitation.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Language is the dress of thought.
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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