Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.
Reason and truth will prevail at last
No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.