This is no time to be making new enemies.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

The superfluous is very necessary.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.