Mme. De StaelThinkers

The Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty ; there is in ns a superfluity of son!, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

Enthusiasm is a signifier of God in us.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Wit is knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.