That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.