You must learn not only to judge but to act for yourself.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite!

But authors before they write should read.

Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance