Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.