The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

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

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.