Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.