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

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

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

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

The conscience is more wise than science.