For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.