There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.