The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.