Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.