A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.

It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.