It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.
Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.