“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”

“A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.”

“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”

“The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.”

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”

“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves tomankind, which are delivered down from generation togeneration as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn”