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

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.