Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure..

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown..

Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at t….

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual….

You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me..

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in rev….

Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only ….

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!.

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world..

For style beyond the genius never dares..

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe..

An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace..

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters….

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose..

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of ….

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little..

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intende….

Reality is always the foe of famous names..

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter..