Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Evil report carries further than any applause.
Beauty and folly are generally companions.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.