Our life is woven wind.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

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

Space is the stature of God.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.