All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.