Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.