Historians are gossips who tease the dead
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.
You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.