A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

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

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?