Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.