The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.