“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”

“Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.”

“People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.”

“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”

“We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.”

“To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.”

“We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.”

“When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.”