Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

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

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

Superstition is but the fear of belief.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.