Love and friendship exclude each other.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.