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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Language is the dress of thought.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.