With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

Was ever poet so trusted before?

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.