Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.