Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Philosophy is the health of the mind.
Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.