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

At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.

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.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

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