If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Habit is everything, even in love.

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.