Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.