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

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

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

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.