True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.