I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.