Humility is the worst form of conceit.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.