One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand..

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned..

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind..

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice..

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be..

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended..

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish..

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves..

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest..

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplish….

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue..

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind..

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone..

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire som….

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire..

A liar should have a good memory..

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it..

Lately we have had many losses..

(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.].

The perfection of art is to conceal art..

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity..