Read moreYou may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
Read moreNo one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Read moreWhen all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Read moreAuthority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
Read moreThere cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
Read moreBooks, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.