Everyone has as much right as he has might.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.