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

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

No man in his senses will dance.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.