Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

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.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Children are what the mothers are.