Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
We must be doing something to be happy.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we p...
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.