The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.