The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.