How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

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

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.