Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

The world is his who can see through its pretension.