If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.