Virtue Is Presupposed In Friendship.

He Who First Praises A Book Becomingly Is Next In Merit To The Author.

As There Are Some Flowers Which You Should Smell But Slightly To Extract All That Is Pleasant In Them ... So There Are Some Men With Whom A Slight Acquaintance Is Quite Sufficient To Draw Out All That Is Agreeable; A More Intimate One Would Be Unsafe And Unsatisfactory.

Music Is God's Gift To Man, The Only Art Of Heaven Given To Earth, The Only Art Of Earth We Take To Heaven.

Every Good Writer Has Much Idiom; It Is The Life And Spirit Of Language.

Consult Duty Not Events.