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

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs