It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.