Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Music is an incitement to love.

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?