Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

Probability is the very guide of life.