Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.