True wit never made us laugh.
There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
Beauty rests on necessities.
Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.