The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

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.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.