True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.