Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.