If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.