Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

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

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.