Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

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.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

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

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

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.