The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

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.

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