No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe.
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
The envious will die, but envy never.
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
Too great haste leads us to error.
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
I have the knack of easing scruples.
The smallest errors are always the best.
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?