When Life Is Unhappy It Is Hard

The Whole Genius Of An Author Consists In Describing Well, And Delineating Character Well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace Only Excel Other Writers By Their Expressions And Images; We Must Indicate What Is True If We Mean To Write Naturally, Forcibly And Delicately.

The Nearer We Come To Great Men The More Clearly We See That They Are Only Men. They Rarely Seem Great To Their Valets.

Love, Slow And Gradual In Its Growth, Is Too Much Like Friendship Ever To Be A Violent Passion.

If It Be True That A Man Is Rich Who Wants Nothing, A Wise Man Is A Very Rich Man.

The Most Amiable People Are Those Who Least Wound The Self-love Of Others.