Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

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