She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

The conscience is more wise than science.

Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.