There are those to whom one must advise madness.

Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

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

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.