The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

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.

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

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