It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Where fear is, happiness is not.