Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!