Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.