Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."

"Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities."

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

"The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it."

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.