No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.