Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Good-humor is always a success.

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.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

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