The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.