An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.