Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.