We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

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!

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.