I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

Hope is a working-man's dream.

No one is wise at all times.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.