Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.