Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

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

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

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

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.