Letter 10021: The young man I am recommending to you is someone I have watched for three years, and my confidence in him is not...

You were praising my speeches, and everyone else was praising your appetite for rhetoric.

All who are attached to the rose, as might be expected in the case of lovers of the beautiful, are not displeased even at the thorns from out of which the flower blows. I have even heard it said about roses by some one, perhaps in jest, or, it may be, even in earnest, that nature has furnished the bloom with those delicate thorns, like stings of...

Don't blame the boy for the slow return.

Although you do not write to me, I know that there is recollection of me in your heart; and this I infer, not because I am worthy of any favourable recollection, but because your soul is rich in abundance of love. Yet, as far as in you lies, use whatever opportunities you have of writing to me, to the end that I may both be cheered by hearing ne...

Since no official courier was available, I entrusted this letter to a private traveler.