Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Character is very much a matter of health.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.