Rank is a great beautifier.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.