By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.