All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.