The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.