Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

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

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

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.

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.