It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.