An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.