Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.