Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

The woman that deliberates is lost.