The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body..

Medicine for the dead is too late.

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion..

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do..

Conscience is a thousand witnesses..

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end..

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature..

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience..

She abounds with lucious faults..

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly..

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too a….

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly..

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory..

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy..

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own..

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming..

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost..

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake..

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up w….