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

False praise is always confined to the great.

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

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.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.