Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Hunger is never delicate.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.