If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.