The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.