True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

Children are what the mothers are.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.