Education is the best provision for old age.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.