Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
Mankind is unamendable.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.