The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

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

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.