A temperate style is alone classical.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes