Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

Those who fear men like laws.

We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.