Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.