Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

One may be humble out of pride.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Men are nothing until they are excited.