Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.