He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
Speech is but the incorporation of thought.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.