Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

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

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?