You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.

It has all been most interesting.

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.