A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.