A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.