Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.