Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.
Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.