Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.