When the candles are out all women are fair.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

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

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

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