Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.