Love is the essence of God.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

Liberty is a slow fruit.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.