To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

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

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.