There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

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

There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.

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

I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.