What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

Jesters do often prove prophets.