There is a transcendent power in example.

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Piety softens all that courage bears.