By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.