Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.