If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.