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

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

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

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

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.