No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

No one should be rich except those who understand it.