To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.