A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

Feeling loves a subdued light.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.