It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.