Hunger is the best sauce.

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

The spirit is the true self.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.