Tenderness is the rest of passion.
To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.