There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Habit is second nature.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.