The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.