Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.