To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.