Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.