The happier time, the quicker it passes
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.