The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

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

Delay in justice is injustice.

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

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.