There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.