Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.