How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.