alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

He who fears not, is to be feared.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.