He Is Rich Who Wishes No More

When I Consider The Wonderful Activity Of The Mind, So Great A Memory Of What Is Past, And Such A Capacity Of Penetrating Into The Future: When I Behold Such A Number Of Arts And Sciences, And Such A Multitude Of Discoveries Hence Arising,--i Believe And Am Firmly Persuaded That A Nature Which Contains So Many Things Within Itself Cannot Be Mortal.

We Are All Excited By The Love Of Praise, And The Noblest Are Most Influenced By Glory.

He Does Not Seem To Me To Be A Free Man Who Does Not Sometimes Do Nothing.

Take From A Man His Reputation For Probity, And The More Shrewd And Clever He Is, The More Hated And Mistrusted He Becomes.

Friendship Is The Only Thing In The World Concerning The Usefulness Of Which All Mankind Are Agreed.