there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private

At what point is the discretion in individual cases actually a pattern which has become a concrete rule and that rule violates the principle and the spirit of the law?

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood