Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.