Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.