Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.