Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Change in all things is sweet.