Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.