Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Man's life is a progress, not a station.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.