Custom is almost a second nature.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.
The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.