Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

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.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

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