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

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.