If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.