Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
Speech is but the incorporation of thought.
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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.