The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

Injuries come only from the heart.

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.