To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.