Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

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

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

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.