Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.

Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.