The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.