We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.