It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.