We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Ornaments were invented by modesty.
Heaven is for those who think of it.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.