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

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.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.