All Quotes

It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation. ”

The soul of man is one of those subtle and evanescent substances that, as long as they remain still, the organ of sight does not remark; it must become agitated to become visible. ”

While my mother lived, I always felt to a certain degree as if I had somebody who was my superior and who exercised a mysterious protection over me. I belonged to something - I hung to something - there is nothing that has so much reverence and religion in it as affection to parents. ”

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. ”

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ”

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. ”

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. ”

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. ”

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. ”

My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books. ”