I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.