Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

Words are the wings of actions.