Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.