The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.