A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.