The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

The conscience is more wise than science.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.