Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name in tender flowers.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.