Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

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

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.