God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

The breath of the mind is attention.