Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

It is better to receive than to do injury.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

I am never less alone than when alone.