Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
There is a majesty in simplicity.
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
Genius involves both envy and calumny.
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.