There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.