Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.