It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Writing is the painting of the voice.

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.