Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.