Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

But it is not reason that governs love.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.