Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.