To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.