The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.