There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

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

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.