Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.