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

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.