If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.