When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).