Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Genius is a long impatience.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.