The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

The human heart will never wrinkle

The heart has no wrinkles.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.