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

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

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

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