Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

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

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.