An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.