Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.