It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.