We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.