Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.