It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Finance is a slave's word.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.