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

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

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

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.