Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.