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.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

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

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.