Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.