Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
Tenderness is the rest of passion.
When you give, give with joy and smiling.
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own