Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.