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.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.