There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.