Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Better is the enemy of good.