It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.