Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

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.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

When we love, it is the heart that judges.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.