Speech is always bolder than action.

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.