To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.