Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.