What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.