Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.