Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

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.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.