Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
Justice is the right of the weakest.
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.