Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.