Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.