Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.