The happier time, the quicker it passes
Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.