Remorse turns us against ourselves.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.