When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long; it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.

There are some who speak one moment before they think

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.