To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.