No man was ever great by imitation.
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.
The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.
He that never thinks can never be wise.
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?