Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

Ask the young. They know everything.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.