It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Let reason govern desire.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Superstition is a senseless fear of God.
Taxes are the sinews of the state.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.