Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.