When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.