Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.