Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.