The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.