In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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.
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.