It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings.

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.