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

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

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

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.