The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.

When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.