The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.