Our life is woven wind.

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.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

A temperate style is alone classical.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.