Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. - Jean de La Bruyère

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to corruption like the vilest creatures ? And does it not prove much more strength of mind and grandeur to be able to conceive the idea of a Being superior to all other beings, by whom and for whom all things were made; of a Being absolutely perfect and pure, without beginning or end, of whom our soul is the image, and of whom, if I may say so, it is a part, because it is spiritual and immortal?