Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.