Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.
Nature tells every secret once.
Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.