Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

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

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

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

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.