Sadness diminishes a man's powers

To understand something is to be delivered of it.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.