If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.