Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.