The Most Heterogeneous Ideas Are Yoked By

There Is Certainly No Greater Happiness Than To Be Able To Look Back On A Life Usefully And Virtuously Employed, To Trace Our Own Progress In Existence, By Such Tokens As Excite Neither Shame Nor Sorrow.

A Man May Write At Any Time, If He Will Set Himself Doggedly To It.

The Truth Is That The Spectators Are Always In Their Senses, And Know, From The First Act To The Last, That The Stage Is Only A Stage, And That The Players Are Only Players.

To A People Warlike And Indigent, An Incursion Into A Rich Country Is Never Hurtful.

The King Who Makes War On His Enemies Tenderly Distresses His Subjects Most Cruelly.