When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.