Poetry cannot be translation

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.