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

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.