There is no place more delightful than home.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
Like associates with like.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.