Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
We live by reposing trust in each other.
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.