The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.