A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.