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 small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.