There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.
Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.