What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

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

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.