If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.