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.

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

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

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.