What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!

There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!