Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.