Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.