O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?