Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.