The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

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.

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.