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

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

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.

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

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

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.