Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.
Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.