"Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind."

"Rarus sermo illis et magna libido tacendi."

"We took sweet counsel together."

"Talis hominibus est oratio qualis vita."

"Sermo animi est imago; qualis vir, talis et oratio est."

"Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire."

"There is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversat…"

"L’esprit de la conversation consiste bien moins à en montrer beaucoup qu’à en faire trouver aux autres: celui qui sor…"

"A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with re…"

"In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve."