The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.