Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.