How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

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.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.