Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.