Nothing recalls the past like music.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

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.

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

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.