We must cultivate our own garden.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.