If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
The landscapist lives in silence.
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.