The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

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

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.