The post of honour is a private station.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.