The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Where there are no women there are no good manners