You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.