When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

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

Children are what the mothers are.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.