He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.