Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

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

He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.

The future is purchased by the present.