He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.
The threshold is the place of expectation.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.