To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.