Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.