The key to education is the experience of beauty.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.