When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

When we love, it is the heart that judges.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.