The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.