It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.