Prayer is the life of the soul.

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.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.