And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.

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

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.