There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.