He only who gave life has a power over it.
Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.