As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.