Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
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.
Who lives content with little possesses everything.
The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.