Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.