A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.