True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.