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

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

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