One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

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.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

Children need models rather than critics.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.