Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.