Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

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.

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

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!

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

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

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.