Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.