The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.