How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

To teach is to learn twice.