Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.