Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

Love is cruel as the grave.