The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.