It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.