I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.