Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.