With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?