The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

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.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

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

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

The breath of the mind is attention.