The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

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.