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

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

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.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.