No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.