When you give, give with joy and smiling.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Ask the young. They know everything.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.