The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Never cut what you can untie.