Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.