Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.
We only half live when we only half think.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.
Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.
Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.