Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.