The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
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.