Kindness is always fashionable.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
Forethought spares afterthought.
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
One should not run on a new road.
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly – I know not which is the greater...
Men can bear all things but good days...
All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.