She commands who is blest with indifference.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.