All Beauties Are To Be Honored, But

The Effort Of Art Is To Keep What Is Interesting In Existence, To Recreate It In The Eternal.

A Friend's Only Gift Is Himself.

The Superiority Of The Distant Over The Present Is Only Due To The Mass And Variety Of The Pleasures That Can Be Suggested, Compared With The Poverty Of Those That Can At Any Time Be Felt.

Every Nation Thinks Its Own Madness Normal And Requisite; More Passion And More Fancy It Calls Folly, Less It Calls Imbecility.

Familiarity Breeds Contempt Only When It Breeds Inattention.