Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
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.