Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.