The Shortness Of Life Cannot

Wit Does Not Take The Place Of Knowledge.

Those Who Can Bear All Can Dare All.

It Is No Great Advantage To Possess A Quick Wit, If It Is Not Correct; The Perfection Is Not Speed But Uniformity.

The Maxim That Men Are Not To Be Praised Before Their Death Was Invented By Envy And Too Lightly Adopted By Philosophers. I, On The Contrary, Maintain That They Ought To Be Praised In Their Lifetime If They Merit It; But Jealousy And Calumny, Roused Against Their Virtue Or Their Talent, Labour To Degrade Them If Any One Ventures To Bear Testimony To Them. It Is Unjust Criticism That They Should Fear To Hazard, Not Sincere Praise.

The Idle Always Have A Mind To Do Something.