By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.