The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

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

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.