Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.