'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

The best may err.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station.

Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship. The passion should strike root and gather strength before marriage be grafted on it.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.