No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.