The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.