Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.
inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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.
Prayer is the life of the soul.
The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.
Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.