A small number of choice books are sufficient.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
A good imitation is the most perfect originality