Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.