Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.