A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.