Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.