The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.