No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.