Every man has his devilish minutes.

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?

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

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

Good-humor is always a success.