Where pride begins, love ceases.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

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.

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

Women are proverbially credulous.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

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.