Apples taste sweetest when they're going.
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.