Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

Rage is a short-lived fury.