Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.