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.

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.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.