Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.