Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.