Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase Are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

They talk of short-lived pleasures-be it so- pain dies as quickly: stern, hard-featured pain Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go. The fiercest agonies have…

Weep not that the world changes-did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have rais…

Setting aside the fact that coercion and guidance can never succeed in producing virtue, they manifestly tend to weaken power; and what are tranquil order and …

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

Avoir du merite a s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une facon d'etre coupable.