In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

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.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?