Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.