We must be doing something to be happy.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.