True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

Applause abates diligence.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.