He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.