Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.