A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

Man is an imitative creature.

The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.