The greatest pleasure in life is love.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.