Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.