The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it

They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life