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

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

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

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.