Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.