A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.