The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

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.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.