It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

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.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

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

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.