It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

Never find fault with the absent.

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart