A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

A modest man never talks of himself.

In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.