It is a long road from conception to completion.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.