An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

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

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

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

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.