“The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.”

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

From the end spring new beginnings.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

Our civilization depends largely on paper.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

There is always something new out of Africa.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

We live by reposing trust in each other.

You grow more when you get more people’s perspective.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

People don’t want gadgets, they want services.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.