Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.