The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.