The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style should be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.
Love has features which pierce all hearts; he wears a bandage, which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings; he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Let the law never be contradictory to custom: for if the custom be good, the law is worthless.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot we must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished who kill not in large companies, and to the sound of trumpets; it is the rule.
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
