Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.