But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

Fractures well cured make us more strong.